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the year 1865, the suhject of diplomatic nego- 

 tiations between Austria and Prussia, but was, 

 at the beginning of the year 1866, still unde- 

 cided. A small party among the higher nobil- 

 ity declared, in favor of a permanent union of 

 both the duchies with Prussia, while the large 

 majority of the people continued to ask for the 

 recognition of Prince Friedrich of Augusten- 

 burg as Duke of Schleswig-Holstein. On Jan- 

 uary 15th thirty-nine landowners signed at 

 Kiel a resolution (subsequently called " the Kiel 

 Resolution "), in which they pronounced them- 

 selves in favor of maintaining the autonomy of 

 the duchies and of fidelity to Prince Friedrich. 

 This resolution was signed by about forty thou- 

 sand inhabitants of the duchies. The " Kiel 

 Resolution " was, on February 26th, unanimous- 

 ly endorsed by an assembly of delegates of one 

 hundred and sixteen Schleswig-Holstein socie- 

 ties. 



Both the people of the duchies and the Prince 

 Augustenburg were willing to make some con- 

 cessions to Prussia. The central committee 

 of the Schleswig-Holstein societies arrived at a 

 full agreement with regard to this point with 

 the committee of the assembly of German 

 deputies, at a meeting held in Berlin on March 

 26th, and this agreement was sanctioned by a 

 general assembly of the Schleswig-Holstein 

 societies, held at Rendsburg on April 19th. 

 The Prince Friedrich, in a manifesto (March 

 31st) addressed to the Government of Prussia, 

 declared himself ready to assent to Rendsburg 

 becoming a Federal fortress, to the cession of 

 territory, to the construction of a canal uniting 

 the German Ocean and the Baltic, and to placing 

 the naval forces under the control cf Prussia, 

 but he rejected the entire fusion of the troops 

 of the duchy with the Prussian army, and de- 

 manded, as compensation for the concession to 

 be made, a reduction of the expenses of war 

 which the duchies had to pay to the allied 

 Powers. 



On August 15, 1865, a convention was con- 

 cluded between Austria and Prussia, at Gastein, 

 in consequence of which Austria assumed tem- 

 porarily the administration of Holstein, and 

 Prussia that of Schleswig. (See GASTEIN 

 CONVENTION.) Austria, consequently, appointed 

 Field-marshal von Gablenz Governor of Hol- 

 stein, while Prussia appointed Lieut.-Gen. von 

 Manteuffel Governor of Schleswig. Both Gov- 

 ernors entered up'on their functions on Septem- 

 ber 14th. 



At an informal meeting of the members of the 

 Holstein Estates, held at Kiel on September 7th, 

 and attended by thirty-one deputies representing 

 the clergy, the towns, and the peasantry, resolu- 

 tions were passed to send a memorial to the 

 Federal Diet, containing a protest in defence 

 of the ancient rights of the country and against 

 a division of the duchies. 



On November 1st the Government of Hol- 

 stein instructed the police authorities to forbid 

 the editors of newspapers published in the 

 duchy, and all other individuals, to give to any 



SIGOURNEY, LYDIA H. 



one titles and denominations appertaining only 

 to sovereigns, and during the provisional stato 

 of things, only applicable to the King of Prussia 

 in respect of Schleswig, and the Emperor of 

 Austria in respect of Holstein. At the same 

 time Gen. Gablenz announced to the Prince of 

 Augustenburg that, should his stay in Holstein 

 lead to any demonstration in favor of the Au- 

 gustenburg claims, his Highness would be im- 

 mediately expelled from the duchies or placed 

 under arrest. 



SCHWARZBURG, the name of two German 

 principalities. Reigning princes, Gunther, Prince 

 of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen, born Septem- 

 ber 24, 1801, succeeded his father August 19, 

 1835 ; and Gunther, Prince of Schwarzburg- 

 Rudolstadt, born November 6, 1793, succceeded 

 his father April 28, 1807. S.-Sondershausen 

 is an unlimited monarchy, a charter granted in 

 1849 having again been abolished in 1857. S.- 

 Rudolstadt has, according to the Constitution 

 of 1821 (modified in 1848 and 1854), a Diet, 

 composed of fifteen deputies, elected in equal 

 parts by the nobility, the towns, and the peas- 

 ants. The area, population, and contingents to 

 the Federal army are as follows : 



Nearly all the inhabitants profess the Lu- 

 theran religion. 



SIGOURNEY, Mrs. LYDIA HFNTLEY, an 

 American poet and prose writer, born at Nor- 

 wich, Conn., September 1, 1791 ; died at Hart- 

 ford, Conn., June 10, 1865. "While yet a child, 

 Lydia Huntley gave evidence of the possession of 

 poetic talent, writing in verse with more facility 

 than in prose. Having enjoyed the advantages 

 of a superior education in Norwich and Hart- 

 ford, she engaged for a time in teaching, first 

 in Norwich, and subsequently, at the solicitation 

 of the late Daniel Wadsworth, in Hartford, 

 where she had a select class of young ladies for 

 five or six years. Under the patronage and at 

 the instance of Mr. Wadsworth, her first vol- 

 ume, " Moral Pieces in Prose and Verse," was 

 published in 1815. In 1819 she became the 

 wife of Mr. Charles Sigourney, an eminent mer- 

 chant of Hartford, a man of high literary and ar- 

 tistic tastes, and from that time Hartford became 

 her home. "Without neglecting her domestic 

 duties, which were always peformed with great 

 assiduity and system, she found time for literary 

 pursuits, to which she was strongly attached, 

 at first for the gratification of her own tastes, 

 and subsequently, after Mr. Sigourney lost the 

 greater part of his fortune, as a means of add- 

 ing to her income. "Writing with extraordinary 

 facility, both in prose and verse, and having 

 attained a literary reputation, which secured 

 for her books a ready sale, she busied herself at 

 all leisure moments with the labors of compo- 

 sition. Gentle and liberal in her disposition, 

 sho performed much of this labor without other 



